Agenda: Class 3: Who is Teaching in Our Schools?

Due: Chapter 1 Reading Quiz
Resources:

Objectives/Learning Goals

  • Brainstorm characteristics of effective teachers and schools.

Instructional Activities

1. Warmup Question:
How many good teachers did you have in high school?
2. Medium-sized Group Activities:
  • Group 1:
    • Select a moderator, a recorder, and a note taker.
    • Brainstorm: What dispositions, characteristics, knowledge and skills make a teacher good?
    • Narrow your brainstorm to create a "Top 10 List - Characteristics of Good Teachers"
    • Report your results to the class.
    • After you leave, have one person in your group post your list here .

  • Group 2:
    • Select a moderator, a recorder, and a note taker.
    • Brainstorm: What characteristics make a school good?
    • Narrow your brainstorm to create a "Top 10 List - Characteristics of Good Schools"
    • Report your results to the class.
    • After you leave, have one person in your group post your list here .

  • Group 3:
    • Select a moderator, a recorder, and a note taker.
    • Brainstorm: What characteristics make a school bad?
    • Narrow your brainstorm to create a "Top 10 List - Characteristics of Bad Schools"
    • Report your results to the class.
    • After you leave, have one person in your group post your list here .

3. Report out our "Top 10" lists.
4. Overview of Context Report
5. To think about for Wednesday:
Based on our lists and our reading, what are some questions we can investigate in order to describe a school?